To improve the performance of Grafana Loki, it is necessary to install several almost identical instances of Memcached, see Grafana Loki: performance optimization with Recording Rules, caching, and parallel queries. The monitoring stack itself is deployed from one Helm chart, which dependencies – Promtail, Loki, etc – are added through the dependency field of… Read More »
So, we have Loki installed from the chart in simple-scale mode, see Grafana Loki: architecture and running in Kubernetes with AWS S3 storage and boltdb-shipper. Loki is runnings on an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster, installed with Loki Helm chart, AWS S3 is used as a long-term store, and BoltDB Shipper is used to… Read More »
Traffic in AWS is generally quite an interesting and sometimes complicated thing, I once wrote about it in the AWS: Cost optimization – services expenses overview and traffic costs in AWS. Now, it’s time to return to this topic again. So, what’s the problem: in AWS Cost Explorer, I’ve noticed that we have an… Read More »
Now we have VictoriaMetrics + Grafana on a regular EC2 instance, launched with Docker Compose, see the VictoriaMetrics: an overview and its use instead of Prometheus. It was kind of a Proof of Concept, and it’s time to launch it “in an adult way” – in Kubernetes and all the configurations stored in a… Read More »
Let’s continue with AWS CDK and Python. I’m not writing because I like CDK, but because there are quite a few examples on the Internet for AWS CDK with Python, so let them at least be here. So, we have a cluster – AWS: CDK and Python – building an EKS cluster, and general… Read More »
Storing access data in Kubernetes Secrets has an important drawback, because they are only available within the Kubernetes cluster itself. To make them available to external services, we can use Hashicorp Vault and integrate it with Kubernetes using solutions such as vault-k8sor use services from AWS – Secrets Manager or Parameter Store. Integrating AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter… Read More »
So we have an AWS EKS cluster built with AWS CDK and Python – AWS: CDK and Python – building an EKS cluster, and general impressions of CDK, and we have an idea of how IRSA works – AWS: EKS, OpenID Connect, and ServiceAccounts. The next step after deploying the cluster is to configure the… Read More »
So, Terraform is great, but so far in our project, we have decided to create the first AWS EKS clusters using the AWS CDK, because firstly, it is already on the project, and secondly, it is very interesting to try a new tool. Today we will see what came out of it, and how… Read More »
Currently, I’m setting up a new EKS cluster. Among other things, I’m running ExternalDNS on it, which uses a Kubernetes ServiceAccount to authenticate to AWS in order to be able to make changes to the domain zone in Route53. However, I forgot to configure the Identity Provider in AWS IAM and ExternalDNS threw an… Read More »
Collecting logs in Grafana Loki with Kubernetes is very simple – we just launch Promtail in DaemonSet, configure it to read all data from /var/logs – and that’s it (in fact, we don’t specify anything at all – everything works out of the box from the Helm chart). But what about CloudWatch Logs? On my new… Read More »